Wednesday, September 23, 2009

And Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly and Fox News. Your pandering to right wing extremists with hate filled diatribes and extremist conspiracy mongering now has another name on its death toll. A 51 year old single father making ends meet for his family with a second job. His body was found September 12th – the day of the tea-bagger’s march on Washington.

WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed" was scrawled on the dead man's chest.

The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and occasional teacher, was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation.

Spreading insane conspiracy theories about FEMA concentration camps, arguing that the President and the government are foreign, alien conspiracies with no legitimacy, promoting and enabling extremist movements. Can it be any kind of surprise that this insane rhetoric leads to violence?

These media vultures should be forced to look Bill Sparkman's children in the eye and explain why they pandered to the hateful ideas behind their father's death.

An American right wing pro-life columnist named Kevin Williamson has done us the good service of taking the pro-life 'Abortion is murde...

Cliff

My Political Compass reads -7.00 / -5.74 which means essentially a lefty libertarian. I've been a union activist and delegate, worked as a lobbyist in Ottawa and ran for office provincially in Alberta for the NDP. I've also worked as a journalist and editor and had fiction published.